Important Watches: Part I
Important Watches: Part I
A yellow gold pocket chronometer for the South American Market | Circa 1890
Auction Closed
May 12, 11:39 AM GMT
Estimate
20,000 - 25,000 CHF
Lot Details
Description
Dial: silvered, ornated
Caliber: 21’’’ ligne manual winding , highly jeweled helical hairspring double bridge, one gold
Case: 18k yellow gold chased scrolling foliage, hinged case back and front, glazed dust cover, cuvette
Case number: 83’996
Size: 56 mm diameter
Signed: case, dial and movement, case also stamped ‘R. Waldvogel’
Box: no
Papers: no
Accessories: none
The present lot is one of a series of precision movements made by Girard Perregaux in the late 19th Century. The movement with helical hair spring and two arrow shaped bridges one of gold is a precision version of the triple bridge tourbillon Girard Perregaux is most known for. The inscription on the cuvette ‘Chronomètre Bulletin d’Obervatoire Girard-Perregaux Chaux-De-Fonds Médaille D’Or Exposition Universelle Paris 1889’, recalls the maker’s prominence in precision movements.
The style of the case and dial are particular to those made for the South American Market in the late 19th Century
